Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson

343 U.S. 495

Type: Opinion
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: Federal
Date: 1952-05-26
Topic: bankruptcy

Mr. Justice Reed, concurring in the judgment of the Court. Assuming that a state may establish a system for the licensing of motion pictures, an issue not foreclosed by the Court’s opinion, our duty requires us to examine the facts of the refusal of a license in each case to determine *507whether the principles of the First Amendment have been honored.- This film does not seem to me to be of a character that the First Amendment permits a state to exclude from public view.

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Mr. Justice Reed,

concurring in the judgment of the Court.

Assuming that a state may establish a system for the licensing of motion pictures, an issue not foreclosed by the Court’s opinion, our duty requires us to examine the facts of the refusal of a license in each case to determine *507 whether the principles of the First Amendment have been honored.- This film does not seem to me to be of a character that the First Amendment permits a state to exclude from public view.